A portion of a fine map entitled The Morayshire Railway 1855 and printed by W & A K Johnston of Edinburgh, one of the city's cartographers and printer publishers. The Morayshire was one of those railways that struggled to get going, having received Royal Assent in 1846 it wasn't until 1852 that the first section opened. It became closely associated with the Great North of Scotland after one of the usual Victorian railway spats with its earlier associate, the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. After financial hardship over several decades by 1881 it finally amalgamated with the GNoSR and so, in 1923 was Grouped into the LNER. This part of Scotland suffered, as did many other rural areas of the UK, heavy losses under both pre- and Beeching cuts.
The map is, I suspect, the plate of an older Scottish county map and I could research that through the wonderful NLS map room pages. This was common practice as it enables the re-use of plates and impressions with just modification to bring it up to fitness for purpose. It is ineresting to see the Moray Firth as the Murray Firth.
For now I'd draw your attention to just one small area of the map, south of Elgin, and a line that wasn't actually built - the short branch from Rothes towards the GNoSR's line at Inchber. Here one wonders if an apprentice wasn't given a small task - to engrave the words "Morayshire Extension" that sadly now in print appear backwards.